ACHAC collection, 1880-ca. 1975

Summary

Creators:

Van Den Heuvel, A., Veber, Pierre, 1869-1942, Valerio, R. de, Valfy, Tournaire, Albert, Toussaint, Tabet, George, Tinayre, Louis, 1861-1941, Wuillaume, R., Würth, Whiting, Richard A., 1891-1938, Willems, Vrillon, Pierre, Waroquier, Henry de, 1881-1970, Viano, Villaire, Henri, Zagourski, C., Orange, Maurice, Pauley, Pelletier, G., Pinchon, E., Nezière, R. de, Nouen, Guy, Noury, Pierre, 1894-, Office algérien d'action economique et touristique, Quidor, Gaston, Rakotouko, Ranem, M., Reclose, Henri, Portal, Henri, Prevot, Paul, Produits du Lion Noir, Prost, Gaston, Russell, Bob, 1914-1970, Rorebour, Régnard, adjudant, Régamey, Frédéric, Ripart, Georges, 1871-, Reynaud (?), Romberg, Sigmund, 1887-1951, Romberg (?), Maurice, Service spécial de police et sûreté, Soudan français, Service de l'information du Congo Belge, Silver, F., Sigman, Carl, Santos, Saint-Granier, Schoeffler, G., Saunier, J., Atelier Cob, Association Connaissance de l'histoire de l'Afrique contemporaine, Atelier Salabert, Atelier J. Fourastié, A.D.I.A., Asso, Raymond, Allard, G., Chocolat Pupier (Firm), Chocolat Suchard (firm), Chazeaud, Jacques, Chocolat Cémoi (Firm), Clérice, Charles, Cognet, Chocolaterie d'Aiguebelle, Clairin, Georges, 1843-1919, Carbonel, Jules, Carew, A. Ferdinand, Breugnot, Camus, Ernest, Cauvy, Lèon, Charaire, E., Casino (Firm), Castel, Eric, Bousquet, L., Borel-Clerc, Charles, Boisselier, H., Beuville, Bresson, R., Braun et compagnie, Liebig's Extract of Meat Company, Boyer, Lucien, 1876-1942, Bouygues, L., Bayle, Luc Marie, Baschet, Marcel, 1862-1941, Bartet, docteur, Auger, Raoul, Bertal-Maubon, Berney-Forien, Benveniste, S. D., Bellenger, P., Douillet, J., Dransy, Naja, Dupuich, J. A., 1904-1984, Dupuy et compagnie, Eckstein-Halpaus, Edition Francis Salabert, Desmeures, Desmoulins, R., Dessault, L., Destres, Melchior, Dommel, Dormoy, Henri, Dandrieux, G., Da Cruz, A., Dellepiane, David, 1866-1932, Aquisti, Danilo, Denay, Pierre, Delval, H., Desmarais, Denoncin, René, 1920-2002, Colin, Paul, 1892-1985, Cohn, Irving, Combier Imprimeur Mâcon, Collection idéale PS (Firm), Congopresse, Compagnie alsacienne des arts photoméchaniques, Cras, Monique, Contet, Henri, 1904-1998, Kahn, Gus, 1886-1941, Koger, Geo., Jourdain, gouverneur, Julsam, -1963, Jomone, Jonas, Lucien, 1880-1947, Irriera, Roger, Ithier, Hubert, Ifrani, Jacques, Imagerie Pellerin (Épinal, France), Hilliard, Bob, Hoffner, L., Géza, Dombay, Hernandez, E., Goldstein, H., Gougeon, Louis, Goichon, Giordani, N., Geiser, Jean, 1848-1923, Gay, Byron, Fortier, François Edmond, 1862-1928, Fort, Jean, Flandrin, Fix-Masseau, Pierre, 1905-, Ferréol, Roger, Falcucci, Monnot, Marguerite, Morvan, Hervé, 1917-1980, Neurdein frères, Marbot, R., Mazenod, L., Mercier, A. L., Merly, Jean, Lion, R., Lévy, fils et compagnie, Levin, Levy, Ch., Ligue maritime et coloniale française, Leroux, Pierre Albert, 1890-1959, Lemonies (?), Leroy, J. V., Lecuona, Margarita, Lebied, E., Lemarchand, Louis, Ledru, Jack, Large, H., Lajoux, Edmond, Latil, C., Larue, Jacques, La Cigogne (Firm), Kálmán, Emmerich, 1882-1953, Laboulais, and La Croix, Veyron

Abstract:

A consortium of scholars and researchers devoted to exploring and promoting discussion of race, iconography, and the colonial and post-colonial periods of Africa and Europe. The ACHAC collection documents the influence of French colonialism, both on Africa and on France itself, as represented in images produced and distributed through the media of French popular culture as well as in the personal photographs of European residents of the African colonies. Some materials concern Belgian and German colonies.

Extent:

32 Linear Feet (31 boxes, 30 flatfiles, 5 rolls)

Language:

French .

Preferred citation:

ACHAC collection, 1880-ca. 1975, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 970031.

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa970031

Background

Scope and content:

The ACHAC collection is iconographic in scope, and documents the impacts and influences of French colonialism, both on Africa and on France itself, as represented in images produced and distributed through the media of French popular culture as well as in the personal photographs of European residents of the African colonies. The collection relates principally to French colonialism, although some materials concern the Belgian and German colonies. Included in the collection are 2286 postcards, 350 loose photographs, 14 photograph albums, 19 periodicals, clippings and portfolio publications, 134 posters, prints and items of original artwork, 83 items of assorted ephemera, 148 loose advertising and collecting cards, 5 collecting card albums, 16 children's games and toys, and 14 scores of sheet music. The geographic foci of the collection are the former French colonies of North, West and Central Africa, with some items pertaining to Madagascar, Djibouti and Indochina, and to a much lesser extent the former Belgian colonies of Central Africa; one collecting card album represents the former German colonies in Africa and Oceania. Produced by government agencies, commercial concerns and private individuals, the images provide a representative cross-section of the visual materials in circulation at the time, in France and elsewhere, pertaining to the colonies and the colonial experience.

The collection is rich in images of colonial conquest and military activity, particularly with respect to the French colonial troops (Troupes coloniales) and the regiments of African soldiers recruited into the French army and serving under European officers, the best documented being the Senegalese infantry (Tirailleurs sénégalais). The collection also features a wealth of images documenting cities, regions and industries within the colonies, as well as the French colonial expositions of the first half of the 20th century, most particularly the one held in Paris in 1931; portraits and depictions of colonized peoples and cultures, ranging in tone from documentary and ethnographic to romanticized, erotic or racist; propaganda and educational images intended to direct public opinion within France into accord with French colonial, military and economic policy; and advertisements and other ephemera employing colonial or racist imagery.

Biographical / historical:

ACHAC (Association Connaissance de l'histoire de l'Afrique contemporaine) is a consortium of scholars and researchers devoted to exploring and promoting discussion of race, iconography and the colonial and post-colonial periods of Africa and Europe. Founded in 1990 by historian and author Pascal Blanchard, ACHAC organizes conferences and prepares scholarly publications on these topics, often in conjunction with other associations. Participants who assisted in the transfer of the materials in this collection include Dr. Blanchard, anthropobiologist Gilles Boëtsch, Director of Research at the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique), and historian and filmmaker Eric Deroo.

ACHAC has created presentations on these topics in a variety of media, including a CD-ROM as well as a traveling educational exhibition entitled Images et colonies, consisting of pre-printed panels offering a critical analysis of popular images from the French colonial period. ACHAC's journal Plein Sud, a publication devoted to African studies, released several issues in 1991 and 1992 and also serves as the publishing imprint for ACHAC's conference proceedings. ACHAC's website (achac.com) will be available online as of Dec. 31, 2001.

ACHAC members participate in conferences and publish articles on topics central to its mission. Most recently, two such articles appeared in the French journal Le Monde diplomatique: "Ces zoos humains de la République coloniale" (Aug. 2000) and "1931! Tous à l'Expo..." (Jan. 2001). Other articles recently appeared include "L'Afrique noire inventée," Historiens et géographes, no. 367 (1999-2000); "Sauvage ou assimilé?", Africultures (Feb. 2000); and "L'invention du corps du colonisé à l'heure de l'apogée coloniale," Le corps dans tous ses états (CNRS Editions, Dec. 2001).

Publications:

Images et colonies : iconographie et propagande coloniale sur l'Afrique française de 1880 à 1962. Nanterre : BDIC ; Paris : ACHAC, [1993]Images et colonies : nature, discours et influence de l'iconographie coloniale liée à la propagande coloniale et à la représentation des Africains et de l'Afrique en France, de 1920 aux indépendances : actes du colloque organisé par l'ACHAC du 20 au 22 janvier 1993 à la Bibliothèque nationale. Paris : Syros, 1993. Conference papers delivered at the Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, 1993. L'Autre et nous : Scènes et types. [Paris] : Syros ; ACHAC, 1995. Conference papers delivered in Marseille, 1995. L'Afrique : un continent, des nations. Toulouse : Milan, 1996-1997. A children's book. Images d'empires : 1930-1960, trente ans de photographies officielles sur l'Afrique française. Paris : Editions de la Martinière, Documentation française, c1997.Imaginaire colonial, figures de l'immigré; special number of Hommes et migrations, June 1997.De l'indigène à l'immigré. Paris : Gallimard, c1998. Series: Découvertes. Histoire, 345. Afriques; special number of Passerelles, no. 16, May 1998.L'héritage colonial : un trou de mémoire; special number of Hommes et migrations, Nov. 2000.Paris noir, 1878-2000. Paris : Ed. Hazan, 2001.

Conferences:

Images et colonies, Bibliothèque nationale (Paris, 1993)

Maghreb et Afrique noire au regard du cinéma colonial, Institut du monde arabe (Paris, 1994)

Scènes et types (Marseille, 1995)

Miroirs d'empires (Lille/Brussels, 1996)

De l'indigène à l'immigré (Lille/Paris, 1997)

Zoos humains? Mémoire coloniale! (Marseille/Paris, 2001)

Exhibitions:

Images et colonies (appeared in 18 countries in Africa, Europe and America, 1993-1998)

Images et colonies (educational exhibition with 120 copies circulating world-wide, 1995-2000)

L'appel à l'Afrique (appeared in 6 African countries, 1995-1998)

Miroirs d'empires (Lille/Brussels, 1996)

Zoos humains (Paris, Bamako, New York, 2001-2002)

Acquisition information:

The collection was acquired directly from ACHAC in 1997.

Processing information:

Collection processed by Paul Arenson.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged in seven series: Series I. Postcards, ca. 1900-ca. 1957; Series II. Photographs, 1895-ca. 1962; Series III. Portfolio publications and other periodical materials, 1909?-ca. 1960; Series IV. Printed images, posters, maps and original artwork, 1880-1967; Series V. Printed ephemera, ca. 1900-ca. 1975; Series VI. Toys and games, 1892-1941; Series VII. Sheet music, 1908-1956.

Physical location:

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Rules or conventions:

archives, personal papers, and manuscripts

Related resources

Separated material:

All of the approximately 300 books and 1150 individual periodical issues from the collection were separated to the library. A search using the term "ACHAC" while selecting the index "Provenance" from the pull-down menu in the Getty online library catalog will retrieve a list of these separated materials, in addition to the ACHAC collection-level record and the full records for the photograph albums and collecting card albums, described more briefly in this finding aid. A search using the term "ACHAC" and selecting the "Keyword" index will retrieve the ACHAC collection-level record and individual album records alone, without records for the separated materials.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

France -- Colonies -- Africa -- History, Military.
Germany -- Colonies -- Africa.
Architecture, Colonial -- Africa
Belgium -- Colonies -- Africa.
Racism in popular culture -- France
Photography of women -- Africa.
Vernacular architecture -- Africa.
Women -- Africa
Colonists -- Africa -- Social life and customs.
Indigenous peoples -- Africa -- Social life and customs.
Landscape -- Africa.
Missions -- Africa.
Africa -- History -- 1884-1960
Africa, Central -- Colonization
Africa, French-speaking West -- Colonization.
Africa, North -- Colonization.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Toys (recreational artifacts)
Tickets
Watercolors
Sheet music
Screen prints
Stickers
Stencils
Posters
Postcards
Relief halftones
Photograph albums
Pictorial envelopes
Photomechanical prints
Portfolios
Playing cards
Board games
Photogravures
Photographic prints
Photographs, Original
Advertising cards
Albumen prints
Albums
Badges
Advertising blotters
Book jackets
Brochures
Chromolithographs
Cigarette cards
Cutouts
First day covers
Ephemera
Collecting cards
Color lithographs
Collodion prints
Lithographs
Line blocks
Maps
Magazines (periodicals)
Gouaches
Gelatin silver prints
Leaflets
Illustrated menus
Offset lithographs
Paintings
Maximum cards
Notebook covers
Drawings (visual works)

Names:

Exposition coloniale de Marseille (Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1906).)
Exposition coloniale de Marseille (1922)
France. Armée. Troupes d'outre-mer
France. Armée. Troupes coloniales
France. Armée. Méharistes
France. Armée. Tirailleurs sénégalais
Exposition coloniale internationale de Paris (Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1931).)
Diagne, Blaise, 1872-1934
Diouf, Galandou
Foucauld, Charles de, 1858-1916
Mutara, King of Rwanda, III Charles Rudahigwa, 1911-1959
Lyautey, Louis Hubert Gonzalve, 1854-1934
Maginot, André, 1877-1932
Lespinasse de Bournazel, Henry-Marie-Just de, 1898-1933

Places:

Madagascar -- Colonization
France -- Colonies -- Africa
Algeria -- History -- Revolution, 1954-1962

Restrictions:

Open for use by qualified researchers.

Terms of access:

Contact Library Rights and Reproductions.

Preferred citation:

ACHAC collection, 1880-ca. 1975, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 970031.

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa970031

Location of this collection:

Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

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Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688, US

Contact:

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